Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: VanguardLH Newsgroups: news.software.readers Subject: Re: PC newsreader that keeps messages and has a good text search Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 11:11:38 -0500 Organization: Usenet Elder Lines: 40 Sender: V@nguard.LH Message-ID: <1rqfy6m1ohit6.dlg@v.nguard.lh> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net Ael/fVni1YvE6wrUu06ttQO/y5tUhUi9tF1L4smUZgdDZZQ17L Keywords: VanguardLH,VLH Cancel-Lock: sha1:MoV1+AbQ9ViO4otjXRueMh4LuS4= sha256:ygJ2pnr3wFilpzmymaINXfityA4wmPs2WbICLmWY4To= User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.41 Bytes: 2376 Reposted article 3 minutes later by Justisaur, but with a slightly different Subject. Justisaur wrote: > [Tbird] also had a bug last week where it re-downloaded all the > messages and now everything older than a week just comes up with an > error. Not a problem with Tbird. A problem with ES (the Usenet provider you use) where a server went down, the articles database got rebuilt which resulted in new article articles (which won't match those you previously downloaded). See the eternal-september.support newsgroup for more info from Ray. > One of the other I'm looking for is the ability to retain all messages > in a particular newsgroup. Maybe you specified retention periods for folders or in account settings. https://www.lifewire.com/auto-remove-old-mail-thunderbird-1173112 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1081515 Could be you are using a view that hides old or flagged messages. > Also built in spellcheck. I remember I tried a couple other newsreaders > like x-news which is supposed to have a way to set up spellcheck but I > couldn't get working. https://www.lifewire.com/check-spelling-as-you-type-thunderbird-1173155 If you want something different, there are extensions you can add for spell checking, like: https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/search/?q=spell By the way, Thunderbird has its own newsgroup over at ---. ..--------------------------------------------------------' '---> alt.comp.software.thunderbird